Baldur's Gate 3 director bragged it could be the "RPG of the decade" during development - then immediately regretted it
Larian ran into a "sh*tload of trouble"

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3's director has reflected ๊on the game's early development process, and why he regretted saying it could be the RPG of the decad꧒e.
At a presentation at Digital Dragons in Poland, Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke revealed to attendees how the RPG looked in the early stages of development. Vincke revealed Larian originally wanted to have a 🅘"dungeon master" tell the player what was going on via voiceover, but Vincke felt it was a "little too ambitious" for Larian to handle.
Baldur's Gate 3's early development years also proved how "inexperienced" Larian was with making cinematics, Vincke further revealed. "But w🏅e felt really, really, really confident because we had already made two RPGs, they were hit RPGs, what could go wrong?" Vincke continued.
"I was so confident, in fact, that I'm gonna do something I w🐻ould never do again," the Baldur's Gate 3 director continued. Vincke then played an old clip of himself presenting Larian's plans for Baldur's Gate 3 at an internal meeting to owner Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro, during which he claimed Baldur's Gate 3 could be the "RPG of ꦫthe decade."
"Almost instantly, I regretted my words," Vincke said of♍ the older clip. "So we got into a whole shitload of trouble. It began in the first year - so you can see nothing is moving," the director continued, playing a clip of a very early cinematic design in Baldur's Gate 3.
"The team just kept on having meeting after meeting where they wanted to perfect everything that they had done wrong in the past. The problem is, when you chase perfection, you can spend a lot of time discussing things. Ultimately, we got over this phase of discussion after more than a year, and we started producing stuf💧f, and then we ran 🐟into a whole bunch of other problems," Vincke continued.
The "number of features" was one of the major problems Larian had to deal with early on, as was the growth of the studio itself to deal with the amount of features. Inexperience with cinematics was a major issue as well, as was the fact that Larian basically didn't have a pipeline in place for creating cinematics in Baldur's Gate 3, Vincke fಌurther revealed.
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Another problem was that the programming team was "lying through their teeth," Vincke added, saying that if a programmer asks you for "500 days" to get something right, they basically have no idea what they're doing. But the best approach 🌳to this was apparently just to "leave them alone," the Baldur's Gate 3 director also revealed. No pressure, then.
Add in that Larian needed to c🅰onstantly optimize p😼erformance as Baldur's Gate 3 was shipping on so many platforms, and you're just beginning to scratch the surface of the problems. Larian had a headcount of around 120 people when Vincke proclaimed that it could be the "RPG of the decade" - by the end of development, this figure had ballooned to around 450.
Maybe Larian's next game might be a little less chaotic in its approach, now that its developers have all this experience under their belts. Or, rather, that should be 'both games,' bec๊ause the studio is working on two "very ambitious RPGs" right now, and it just opened a brandཧ new studio in Warsaw, Poland, to bring these plans to fruition.
Hirun Cryer is a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning🎉 a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cinema, literature, and history, he stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooter🦂s, indie games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.
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